1 Et factus est sermo Domini ad me, dicens: 2 Fili hominis, notas fac Jerusalem abominationes suas, 3 et dices: Hæc dicit Dominus Deus Jerusalem: Radix tua et generatio tua de terra Chanaan: pater tuus Amorrhæus, et mater tua Cethæa. 4 Et quando nata es, in die ortus tui non est præcisus umbilicus tuus, et aqua non es lota in salutem, nec sale salita, nec involuta pannis. 5 Non pepercit super te oculus, ut faceret tibi unum de his, misertus tui: sed projecta es super faciem terræ in abjectione animæ tuæ in die qua nata es. 6 Transiens autem per te, vidi te conculcari in sanguine tuo: et dixi tibi cum esses in sanguine tuo: Vive, dixi, inquam, tibi: in sanguine tuo vive. 7 Multiplicatam quasi germen agri dedi te: et multiplicata es, et grandis effecta, et ingressa es, et pervenisti ad mundum muliebrem: ubera tua intumuerunt, et pilus tuus germinavit: et eras nuda, et confusione plena. 8 Et transivi per te, et vidi te: et ecce tempus tuum, tempus amantium: et expandi amictum meum super te, et operui ignominiam tuam: et juravi tibi, et ingressus sum pactum tecum, ait Dominus Deus, et facta es mihi. 9 Et lavi te aqua, et emundavi sanguinem tuum ex te, et unxi te oleo. 10 Et vestivi te discoloribus, et calceavi te janthino, et cinxi te bysso, et indui te subtilibus: 11 et ornavi te ornamento, et dedi armillas in manibus tuis, et torquem circa collum tuum: 12 et dedi inaurem super os tuum, et circulos auribus tuis, et coronam decoris in capite tuo. 13 Et ornata es auro et argento, et vestita es bysso et polymito et multicoloribus: similam, et mel, et oleum comedisti: et decora facta es vehementer nimis, et profecisti in regnum. 14 Et egressum est nomen tuum in gentes propter speciem tuam, quia perfecta eras in decore meo quem posueram super te, dicit Dominus Deus. 15 Et habens fiduciam in pulchritudine tua, fornicata es in nomine tuo: et exposuisti fornicationem tuam omni transeunti, ut ejus fieres. 16 Et sumens de vestimentis tuis, fecisti tibi excelsa hinc inde consuta, et fornicata es super eis sicut non est factum, neque futurum est. 17 Et tulisti vasa decoris tui de auro meo atque argento meo, quæ dedi tibi, et fecisti tibi imagines masculinas, et fornicata es in eis. 18 Et sumpsisti vestimenta tua multicoloria, et operuisti illas, et oleum meum et thymiama meum posuisti coram eis. 19 Et panem meum quem dedi tibi, similam, et oleum, et mel, quibus enutrivi te, posuisti in conspectu eorum in odorem suavitatis: et factum est, ait Dominus Deus. 20 Et tulisti filios tuos et filias tuas quas generasti mihi, et immolasti eis ad devorandum. Numquid parva est fornicatio tua? 21 Immolasti filios meos, et dedisti, illos consecrans, eis. 22 Et post omnes abominationes tuas et fornicationes, non es recordata dierum adolescentiæ tuæ, quando eras nuda et confusione plena, conculcata in sanguine tuo. 23 Et accidit post omnem malitiam tuam (væ, væ tibi ! ait Dominus Deus), 24 et ædificasti tibi lupanar, et fecisti tibi prostibulum in cunctis plateis. 25 Ad omne caput viæ ædificasti signum prostitutionis tuæ, et abominabilem fecisti decorem tuum: et divisisti pedes tuos omni transeunti, et multiplicasti fornicationes tuas: 26 et fornicata es cum filiis Ægypti, vicinis tuis, magnarum carnium: et multiplicasti fornicationem tuam ad irritandum me. 27 Ecce ego extendam manum meam super te, et auferam justificationem tuam, et dabo te in animas odientium te filiarum Palæstinarum, quæ erubescunt in via tua scelerata. 28 Et fornicata es in filiis Assyriorum eo quod necdum fueris expleta: et postquam fornicata es, nec sic es satiata: 29 et multiplicasti fornicationem tuam in terra Chanaan cum Chaldæis, et nec sic satiata es. 30 In quo mundabo cor tuum, ait Dominus Deus, cum facias omnia hæc opera mulieris meretricis et procacis? 31 Quia fabricasti lupanar tuum in capite omnis viæ, et excelsum tuum fecisti in omni platea: nec facta es quasi meretrix fastidio augens pretium, 32 sed quasi mulier adultera, quæ super virum suum inducit alienos. 33 Omnibus meretricibus dantur mercedes: tu autem dedisti mercedes cunctis amatoribus tuis, et dona donabas eis, ut intrarent ad te undique ad fornicandum tecum. 34 Factumque est in te contra consuetudinem mulierum in fornicationibus tuis, et post te non erit fornicatio: in eo enim quod dedisti mercedes, et mercedes non accepisti, factum est in te contrarium. 35 Propterea, meretrix, audi verbum Domini. 36 Hæc dicit Dominus Deus: Quia effusum est æs tuum et revelata est ignominia tua in fornicationibus tuis super amatores tuos, et super idola abominationum tuarum, in sanguine filiorum tuorum quos dedisti eis, 37 ecce ego congregabo omnes amatores tuos quibus commista es, et omnes quos dilexisti, cum universis quos oderas: et congregabo eos super te undique, et nudabo ignominiam tuam coram eis, et videbunt omnem turpitudinem tuam. 38 Et judicabo te judiciis adulterarum, et effundentium sanguinem: et dabo te in sanguinem furoris et zeli. 39 Et dabo te in manus eorum, et destruent lupanar tuum, et demolientur prostibulum tuum: et denudabunt te vestimentis tuis, et auferent vasa decoris tui, et derelinquent te nudam, plenamque ignominia: 40 et adducent super te multitudinem, et lapidabunt te lapidibus, et trucidabunt te gladiis suis: 41 et comburent domos tuas igni, et facient in te judicia in oculis mulierum plurimarum. Et desines fornicari, et mercedes ultra non dabis: 42 et requiescet indignatio mea in te, et auferetur zelus meus a te: et quiescam, nec irascar amplius. 43 Eo quod non fueris recordata dierum adolescentiæ tuæ, et provocasti me in omnibus his, quapropter et ego vias tuas in capite tuo dedi, ait Dominus Deus, et non feci juxta scelera tua in omnibus abominationibus tuis. 44 Ecce omnis qui dicit vulgo proverbium, in te assumet illud, dicens: Sicut mater, ita et filia ejus. 45 Filia matris tuæ es tu, quæ projecit virum suum et filios suos: et soror sororum tuarum es tu, quæ projecerunt viros suos et filios suos: mater vestra Cethæa, et pater vester Amorrhæus. 46 Et soror tua major, Samaria, ipsa et filiæ ejus, quæ habitant ad sinistram tuam: soror autem tua minor te, quæ habitat a dextris tuis, Sodoma, et filiæ ejus. 47 Sed nec in viis earum ambulasti, neque secundum scelera earum fecisti pauxillum minus: pene sceleratiora fecisti illis in omnibus viis tuis. 48 Vivo ego, dicit Dominus Deus, quia non fecit Sodoma soror tua, ipsa et filiæ ejus, sicut fecisti tu et filiæ tuæ. 49 Ecce hæc fuit iniquitas Sodomæ sororis tuæ: superbia, saturitas panis et abundantia, et otium ipsius et filiarum ejus: et manum egeno et pauperi non porrigebant: 50 et elevatæ sunt, et fecerunt abominationes coram me: et abstuli eas sicut vidisti. 51 Et Samaria dimidium peccatorum tuorum non peccavit: sed vicisti eas sceleribus tuis, et justificasti sorores tuas in omnibus abominationibus tuis quas operata es. 52 Ergo et tu porta confusionem tuam, quæ vicisti sorores tuas peccatis tuis, sceleratius agens ab eis: justificatæ sunt enim a te: ergo et tu confundere, et porta ignominiam tuam, quæ justificasti sorores tuas. 53 Et convertam restituens eas conversione Sodomorum cum filiabus suis, et conversione Samariæ et filiarum ejus, et convertam reversionem tuam in medio earum, 54 ut portes ignominiam tuam, et confundaris in omnibus quæ fecisti consolans eas. 55 Et soror tua Sodoma et filiæ ejus revertentur ad antiquitatem suam, et Samaria et filiæ ejus revertentur ad antiquitatem suam, et tu et filiæ tuæ revertemini ad antiquitatem vestram. 56 Non fuit autem Sodoma soror tua audita in ore tuo in die superbiæ tuæ, 57 antequam revelaretur malitia tua, sicut hoc tempore in opprobrium filiarum Syriæ, et cunctarum in circuitu tuo filiarum Palæstinarum quæ ambiunt te per gyrum. 58 Scelus tuum et ignominiam tuam tu portasti, ait Dominus Deus. 59 Quia hæc dicit Dominus Deus: Et faciam tibi sicut despexisti juramentum, ut irritum faceres pactum: 60 et recordabor ego pacti mei tecum in diebus adolescentiæ tuæ, et suscitabo tibi pactum sempiternum. 61 Et recordaberis viarum tuarum, et confunderis, cum receperis sorores tuas te majores cum minoribus tuis: et dabo eas tibi in filias, sed non ex pacto tuo. 62 Et suscitabo ego pactum meum tecum, et scies quia ego Dominus: 63 ut recorderis, et confundaris, et non sit tibi ultra aperire os præ confusione tua, cum placatus tibi fuero in omnibus quæ fecisti, ait Dominus Deus.
Ezekiel 16 Clementine Vulgate
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- 2 Ezekiel 22:2; Ezekiel 20:4; Isaiah 58:1; Hosea 8:1; Ezekiel 33:7–9
- 3 Ezekiel 16:45; Isaiah 51:1–2; Deuteronomy 20:17; John 8:44; Nehemiah 9:7
- 4 Hosea 2:3; Exodus 5:16–21; Genesis 15:13; Joshua 24:2; Deuteronomy 15:15
- 5 Deuteronomy 32:10; Numbers 19:16; Exodus 1:22; Lamentations 4:3; Genesis 21:10
- 6 Ephesians 2:4–5; Titus 3:3–7; John 5:25; Acts 7:34; Matthew 5:13
- 7 Exodus 1:7; Deuteronomy 1:10; Isaiah 62:3; Ezekiel 16:10–13; Song of Songs 4:5
- 8 Ruth 3:9; Jeremiah 2:2–3; Romans 5:8; Isaiah 43:4; Exodus 32:13
- 9 Psalm 23:5; Ruth 3:3; 1 John 2:27; 1 John 5:8; 1 Corinthians 6:11
- 10 Ezekiel 16:18; Ezekiel 16:13; Exodus 26:36; Psalm 45:13–14; Isaiah 61:10
- 11 Genesis 24:22; Isaiah 3:19; Genesis 41:42; Genesis 24:47; Proverbs 1:9
- 12 Isaiah 3:21; Isaiah 28:5
- 13 1 Kings 4:21; Psalm 50:2; Deuteronomy 32:13–14; Psalm 48:2; Psalm 45:13–14
- 14 Lamentations 2:15; 1 Kings 10:24; 1 Corinthians 4:7; Deuteronomy 4:6–8; Joshua 2:9–11
- 15 Ezekiel 16:25; Isaiah 57:8; Jeremiah 2:20; Ezekiel 23:3; Jeremiah 7:4
- 16 2 Kings 23:7; Ezekiel 7:20; 2 Chronicles 28:24; Hosea 2:8
- 17 Ezekiel 23:14–21; Hosea 10:1; Jeremiah 3:9; Exodus 32:1–4; Isaiah 57:7–8
- 19 Ezekiel 16:13; Genesis 8:21; Deuteronomy 32:14–17; Hosea 2:8–13
- 20 Ezekiel 23:37; Ezekiel 20:26; Psalm 106:37–38; Exodus 13:2; Jeremiah 7:31
- 21 2 Kings 17:17; Deuteronomy 18:10; Leviticus 18:21; Jeremiah 19:5; 2 Kings 21:6
- 22 Jeremiah 2:2; Ezekiel 16:43; Hosea 11:1; Ezekiel 16:3–7; Ezekiel 16:60–63
- 23 Revelation 12:12; Jeremiah 13:27; Ezekiel 13:18; Zephaniah 3:1; Ezekiel 24:6
- 24 Psalm 78:58; Jeremiah 2:20; Ezekiel 16:31; Isaiah 57:7; Ezekiel 16:39
- 25 Ezekiel 16:31; Jeremiah 3:2; Ezekiel 23:32; Jeremiah 6:15; Isaiah 3:9
- 26 Ezekiel 23:19–21; Ezekiel 20:7–8; Ezekiel 8:10; Jeremiah 7:18–19; Ezekiel 23:8
- 27 Isaiah 9:12; Ezekiel 16:57; Ezekiel 16:37; Ezekiel 16:47; Hosea 2:9–12
- 28 2 Kings 16:7; Jeremiah 2:18; Jeremiah 2:36; 2 Kings 16:10–18; Hosea 10:6
- 29 Ezekiel 13:14–23; 2 Kings 21:9; Ezekiel 23:14–21; Judges 2:12–19
- 30 Jeremiah 3:3; Isaiah 1:3; Proverbs 9:13; Jeremiah 4:22; Isaiah 3:9
- 31 Ezekiel 16:33–34; Isaiah 52:3; Hosea 12:11; Ezekiel 16:24–25; Ezekiel 16:39
- 32 Jeremiah 2:28; Hosea 3:1; Jeremiah 3:20; 2 Corinthians 11:2–3; Jeremiah 2:25
- 33 Isaiah 57:9; Hosea 8:9–10; Ezekiel 16:41; Joel 3:3; Genesis 38:16–18
- 35 Isaiah 28:14; Jeremiah 3:6–8; Ezekiel 13:2; Hosea 2:5; Isaiah 1:21
- 36 Ezekiel 23:10; Ezekiel 36:25; Ezekiel 22:15; Jeremiah 13:22–26; Ezekiel 23:29
- 37 Jeremiah 13:22; Hosea 2:3; Hosea 2:10; Nahum 3:5–6; Jeremiah 13:26
- 38 Genesis 9:6; Leviticus 20:10; Jeremiah 18:21; Zephaniah 1:17; Numbers 35:31
- 39 Ezekiel 23:26; Hosea 2:3; Ezekiel 16:24–25; Ezekiel 16:10–20; Isaiah 3:16–24
- 40 Ezekiel 23:47; Habakkuk 1:6–10; John 8:5–7; Ezekiel 23:10; Jeremiah 25:9
- 41 Ezekiel 23:48; Ezekiel 23:27; Jeremiah 39:8; 2 Kings 25:9; Jeremiah 52:13
- 42 Ezekiel 5:13; Isaiah 40:1–2; Ezekiel 21:17; Ezekiel 39:29; Isaiah 54:9–10
- 43 Ezekiel 16:22; Psalm 78:42; Ezekiel 11:21; Ezekiel 22:31; Psalm 106:13
- 44 Ezekiel 18:2–3; Psalm 106:35–38; 1 Samuel 24:13; Ezekiel 16:3; Ezra 9:1
- 45 Zechariah 11:8; Isaiah 1:4; Ezekiel 23:2; Ezekiel 16:8; Ezekiel 16:15
- 46 Ezekiel 23:4; Ezekiel 16:61; Ezekiel 16:53–56; Genesis 13:10–13; Ezekiel 16:51
- 47 2 Kings 21:9; Ezekiel 5:6–7; Ezekiel 16:51; Ezekiel 16:48; 1 Kings 16:31
- 48 Matthew 10:15; Mark 6:11; Luke 10:12; Acts 7:52; Matthew 11:23–24
- 49 Psalm 138:6; Genesis 13:10; Ezekiel 28:2; Luke 12:16–20; Ezekiel 18:12
- 50 Genesis 19:5; Genesis 13:13; Genesis 19:24; Genesis 18:20; Zephaniah 2:9
- 51 Jeremiah 3:8–11; Romans 3:9–20; Luke 12:47–48; Matthew 12:41–42
- 52 Matthew 7:1–5; Romans 1:32–2:1; 1 Samuel 24:17; Ezekiel 16:54; Jeremiah 23:40
- 53 Ezekiel 39:25; Ezekiel 29:14; Isaiah 19:24–25; Jeremiah 12:16; Jeremiah 48:47
- 54 Ezekiel 14:22–23; Jeremiah 2:26; Ezekiel 16:63; Ezekiel 36:31–32; Ezekiel 16:52
- 55 Ezekiel 36:11; Malachi 3:4; Ezekiel 16:53
- 56 Isaiah 65:5; Zephaniah 3:11; Luke 15:28–30; Luke 18:11
- 57 2 Kings 16:5–7; Isaiah 7:1; Ezekiel 16:36–37; 2 Chronicles 28:18–23; 2 Chronicles 28:5–6
- 58 Ezekiel 23:49; Lamentations 5:7; Genesis 4:13
- 59 Ezekiel 17:19; Isaiah 24:5; Deuteronomy 29:10–15; Jeremiah 31:32; Ezekiel 17:13–16
- 60 Hosea 2:19–20; Hebrews 8:10; Hebrews 12:24; Jeremiah 50:5; Ezekiel 16:8
- 61 Hebrews 8:13; Galatians 4:26–31; Ephesians 3:6; Romans 11:11; Romans 15:16
- 62 Jeremiah 24:7; Ezekiel 6:7; Ezekiel 39:22; Ezekiel 20:43–44; Joel 3:17
- 63 Psalm 39:9; Romans 3:19; Ezekiel 36:31–32; Titus 3:3–7; Daniel 9:7–8
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The prophet says to those very Jews, "Thy father was an Amorite, and thy mother a Hittite." The Amorites were not a nation that gave origin to the Jews.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 7 (1888)
For touching them of Sodom likewise it is said, that "in pride, and in plenty, and in fullness of bread, they waxed wanton." And they who were in Noah's time, seeing the ark a preparing for so many years, lived on in senseless mirth, forseeing nought of what was coming.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)
… a charge of whoredom, nevertheless from this grew the root of each of those punishments; which Ezekiel also signified when he said, "But this was the iniquity of Sodom, that she waxed wanton in pride and in fullness of bread, and in abundance of luxury." Thus the Jews also per petrated the greatest wickedness, being driven upon transgression by their …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)
With this law of condemnation, Ezekiel too was acquainted: wherefore also he said to Jerusalem, "Thou hast justified thy sisters in all thy sins." Thus everywhere is He wont to linger in the Old Testament, as in a favored place.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)